Category Archives: Art-Poetry Intersection
XI CHUAN with PAUL MANFREDI at Seattle Public Central Library
http://www.elliottbaybook.com/node/events/jan12/xi Start: 01/09/2012 7:00 pm Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. A welcome Seattle return is made this evening by one of the foremost poets at work in China today, Xi Chuan. He read with … Continue reading
Chinese Contemporary word and image
My usual weekly post now slowed by the poetry-art project. I’m now returning to visual-verbal intersections in contemporary era. At the upcoming AAS we will be presenting on Modernism in Chinese poetry (Panel 81), and I will be focusing on … Continue reading
Nobel Prize
Blog composed 11.13.10. 1 To set the record straight: The New York Times, on November 11, runs an editorial by KISHORE MAHBUBANI on Liu Xiaobo that voices succinctly and cogently another opinion. This reaffirms (in my mind at least) the function … Continue reading
“Written Words Make a Wall” video–Yan Li’s painting and poetry
One more in my video series, this one with cameo by Lucia, an avid if still somewhat imperfect reader. The short poem series that frames, textually, the video is ongoing. Numbering already in the thousands, Yan Li regularly groups and … Continue reading
Yan Li video-poem series “I am Snow”
I am also working on a series of videos which feature both the poetry and the painting of the contemporary artist Yan Li. This particular video features his reading of “I Am Snow,” a poem which dates back to 1976, … Continue reading